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| Born: |
Wallace, Idaho,1943 |
| Lives |
Pullman, WA |
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| EDUCATION |
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Washington State University, Pullman, WA, B.A. 1967
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, M.F.A. 1969 |
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| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS |
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| 1996 |
Robert Helm 1981-1993, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
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| 1995 |
Robert Helm 1981-1993, Washington State University Museum of
Art, Pullman, Washington
Robert Helm 1981-1993, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
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| 1994 |
Robert Helm 1981-1993, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston
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| 1991 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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| 1987 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
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| 1984 |
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| 1982 |
Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany |
| 1978 |
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| 1977 |
Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, Hope, ID
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| 1976 |
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1974 |
Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
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| 1970 |
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 1998 |
Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, group show.
Cologne Art Fair, Germany.
Gallery Reddman, Berlin, group show.
L. A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles,"Gallery Artist Group Show" |
| 1997 |
Cologne Art Fair, Germany
Gallery Reddman, Berlin, "Five American Artists" L.A. Louver Gallery,
Los Angeles, "Gallery Group Exhibition". Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, Invitational.
Emily Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY, "Wood Work"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group"
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| 1996 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group"
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| 1995 |
Champion International Headquarters, Woodwork
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Summer Gallery Group |
| 1994 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Winter Group Exhibition |
| 1993 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, Gallery Group Exhibition
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| 1992 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
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| 1991 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Group Exhibition"
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| 1990 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Summer Group Exhibition"
The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT,
"With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting"
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| 1990 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, "Storyline"
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| 1989 |
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA, "Master of the Inland Northwest"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, "Summer"
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, "The Contemporary American
Landscape: A Certain Slant of Light"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, "Epiphanies"
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| 1988 |
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., "Different Drummers"
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| 1987 |
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"1987 Biennial Exhibition"
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA "The Inland Empire"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1986 |
University Art Gallery, California State University, Carson, CA "Miracles and Mysteries"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Artists"
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, "Awards in the Visual Arts 5",
Travelled to: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH,
Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ "New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Artists"
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA "American/European, Part II: Painting and Sculpture"
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| 1985 |
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA "American/European: Painting
and Sculpture"
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA "Contemporary Wood
Sculpture"
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| 1984 |
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Gallery Artists"
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY "Inaugural Exhibition"
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| 1982 |
"Art Fair", Basel, Switzerland
"Art Fair", Cologne, Germany
"Art Fair 82" Dusseldorf, Germany
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| 1980 |
Middendorf-Lane Gallery, Washington D.C. Invitational Show
"Tableaux, an American Selection" `
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| 1977 |
"Biennale 10", Paris, France
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| 1975 |
Museum of Art , Washington State University, Pullman, Wa, "Northwest Sculpture"
1975 Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MO "Concepts and Executions
of 8 Sculptors"
Galerie Giancarla Bocchi, Milan, Italy
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Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Canada
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| 1973 |
Washington State Governor's Invitational Show, Olympia, WA
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Ashland College, Ashland, OH "Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Invitational "
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| 1971 |
Brena Gallery, Denver, CO
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| 1969 |
Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA "Northwest Annual" |
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| AWARDS |
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Governor's Award, State of Washington, 1992
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.) Berlin, Germany, 1978 |
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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Koplos, Janet. Reveiw, Art in America, February 1992, p. 118.
Mahoney, Robert. Reveiw, ARTS Magazine, January 1992, pp.82-83
Adams, Brooks. "The Border of Creativity," Vogue, July 1990, p.96ff.
Richard, Paul. "The Display of Daring," Washington Post, March 15, 1989, sec. B.
Allen, Jane Addams, "Nine Different Drummers' Come Up from
Underground" Washington Times, May 19, 1988, EL.
Lewis, Jo Ann, "The Resonant 'Drummers'" Washington Post, May 15, 1988, DL.
Rubenfield, Florence, "Different Drummers" Arts, November 1988, pp. 76-79.
Yau, Jon, "Robert Helm", Artforum, Summer 1987, p. 119.
Hughes, Robert. "Navigating a Cultural Trough", Time, May 11, 1987, pp. 81-82.
Wilson, William, "Pristine Anarchy", Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1987, pp. 93-94
Brenson, Michael, "Art: Whitney Biennial's New Look", New York Times, April 10, 1987
Wallach, Amei, New York Newsday, February 6, 1987, Weekend: pp. 26-7
Brenson, Michael, "Robert Helm", New York Times, February 6, 1987, C23
Glueck, Grace, "Today the Frame May be Part of the Picture", New York Times,
March 3, 1985, H29
Ivory, James, "In the American Grain: Robert Helm", Artforum, November 1984, pp. 74-6
Finnell, Suzanna, "Art at the Center", The Northwest Journal for Architecture and Design, August/September 1985, p. 9
Menzies, Neal, "Romantic Uses of Wood", Artweek, May 19, 1984
Muchnic, Suzanne, "Robert Helm", Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1984
Roberts, Allison, "Wooden Images" The Sacramento Union, November 2, 1984, P. D-1
Lasarow, Bill "Robert Helm", Artscene, May 1984
Glowen, Ron, "Robert Helm at Seattle Art Museum", Art in America, May 1984
Everingham, Carol J. "Glimpse the Twilight Zone", The Houston Press,
February 12, 1984, p. 4F
Guenther, Bruce, 50 Northwest Artists: A Critical Survey of Painters and Sculptors
Working in the Pacific Northwest. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1983
Hackett, Regina. "Painter Robert Helm Toys with Illusions in Order to Provoke",
Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 6, 1983, p. 6
Smallwood, Lyn, "Cubism's Kissing Cousins" The Weekly, December 14-20, 1983
Tarzan, Delores, "Helm Blends Common Objects for Effect"
Seattle Times, December 9, 1983
Wilson, William, "A Critical Guide to the Galleries" Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1978
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Robert Helm's Containers for Materials and Ideas",
Artweek, January 28, 1978
"Paris Biennale Shows a Surprising Diversity", International Herald Tribune,
September 24-25, 1977
"Masters Drawings, Voluptuous Boxes", Artnews, September 1976
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York
Tacoma Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Collection of Board of Directors, Federal Reserve Board, Washington DC |
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